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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 6.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Neurol. 2017 Sep 28;25(1):41–58. doi: 10.1111/ene.13412

Table 1.

Clinical subtypes of MSA, PSP, CBD and FTLD

Disorder Clinical phenotypes Comment
MSA MSA-P Parkinsonian variant
MSA-C Cerebellar variant
PSP PSP-RS Richardson’s syndrome (classical phenotype)
PSP-P Parkinsonian variant
PSP-OM Predominance of ocular motor symptoms
PSP-PI Predominance of postural instability
PSP-PPFGa Primary progressive freezing of gait
PSP-PA Pure akinesia
PSP-F PSP with frontal lobe dysfunction, including:
 bvFTD PSP presenting as bvFTD
PSP-CBS PSP presenting as CBS
PSP-SL PSP with speech or language impairment, including:
 PSP-navPPA PSP presenting as non-fluent agrammatic variant PPA
 PSP-AOS PSP presenting as primary progressive apraxia of speech
PSP-C Cerebellar variant
PSP-PLS Primary lateral sclerosis variant
CBD CBS Classical phenotype (possible versus probable CBS)
FBS Frontal behavioral-spatial syndrome
PSPS PSP syndrome with CBD pathology
navPPA Non-fluent agrammatic variant PPA with CBD pathology
FTLD bvFTD Behavioral variant FTD
svPPA Semantic variant PPA
navPPA Non-fluent agrammatic variant PPA
lvPPA Logopenic variant PPA
FTD-MND FTD associated with motor neuron disease
CBS CBS with FTLD pathology
PSP PSP with FTLD pathology
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PSP-PPFG is also called PSP-PAGF: pure akinesia with gait freezing.